Tips

How to activate the Cover Art plugin

If you want to use the cover art plugin, but are unable to do so, you need to install gnome-python

pacman -S gnome-python

After you do that, restart Rhythmbox.

This requirement also affects the Song Lyrics and Magnitune plugins, as well as serveral others.

What to do when the little red icon shows when you try to play radio stations

First thing to do when the stop sign icon shows is to right-click the name of the station you are trying to listen to and open the Properties dialog box. Rhythmbox should give a bit more explanation about why it was unable to start playing the audio stream.

How to activate the DAAP Music Sharing

First, install the libdmapsharing dependency for DAAP sharing:

pacman -S libdmapsharing

You'll need the avahi-daemon running. So just add in your /etc/rc.conf to the DAEMONS section the avahi-daemon:

DAEMONS=(... ... ... ... avahi-daemon)

Or start manually:

/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start

Troubleshooting

What to do if you see an "Unknown Playback Error" message

Unknown Playback when streaming from an online radio station

If you click on the radio stations and are shown a "Unknown Playback Error" error message. you probably do not have a gstreamer gnomevfs installed.

The package is called gstreamer0.10-base-plugins-gnomevfs and is available in the AUR

After you install it, restart Rhythmbox.

Unknown Playback when streaming or playing from regular files

Alternatively, Rhythmbox will display the same error message when it does not have the correct codec to play that stream. You will need to identify what format the stream is (by looking at the command line error messages that Rhythmbox displays) and then install the correct Gstreamer codec for that particular audio stream.

If you do not know which gstreamer plugin servers what audio formats, ask on IRC or just google it.

"Error, impossible to activate plugin 'Audio CD Recorder'" shows up every time I start Rhythmbox